Anime Film Adaptations Are Doomed in the West
Brendan Writes: With more news surfacing regarding the Death Note movie being in final talks with a possible leading man, the question must be raised if this property (or any Anime/Manga for that matter) is feasible if done in the Hollywood system. Hollywood is notorious for mining other cultures for film concepts. This is nothing new, and sometimes it works out rather well; take the recent Godzilla for example: it captured the concept of the original film series while still managing to make a summer blockbuster. More often than not, though, films that use source material from another culture will be lost in translation.
